Decisions, Volume 31

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Page 208 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use,...
Page 74 - CO., are hereby placed upon notice that "operative rights" do not constitute a class of property which should be capitalized or used as an element of value in determining reasonable rates. Aside from their purely permissive aspect, they extend to the holder a full or partial monopoly of a class of business over a particular route. This monopoly feature may be changed or destroyed at any time by the State, which is not in any respect limited to the number of rights which may be given.
Page 817 - ... days' notice to the Commission and to the general public by filing and posting tariffs in the manner prescribed in section 14 of the Public Utilities Act...
Page 368 - ... but no such certificate shall be required of any transportation company as to the fixed termini between which or the route over which it is actually operating in good faith at the time this act, becomes effective...
Page 667 - Plaintiff Sierra Club is a non-profit corporation organized and operating under the laws of the State of California, with its principal place of business in San Francisco, California since 1892.
Page 355 - No street, in the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California...
Page 308 - Commission the money to be procured by the issue of said bonds herein authorized is reasonably required for the purpose specified in this order, and that such purpose is not in whole or in part reasonably chargeable to operating expenses or to income.
Page 357 - Company, a corporation, has petitioned the Railroad Commission for an order declaring that public convenience and necessity require the operation by it of...
Page 96 - After full consideration of all the facts of record we are of the opinion and so find...
Page 578 - Company, in so far as they differ from the rates herein established, are unjust and unreasonable, and that the rates herein established are just and reasonable rates...

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